Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-28
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DesMoines special TO New York Tribune.
1t Is becoming more evident every DAY that Nj.
Wilson will not have waIk-over In his rsce for
the United States senate. The granger element is
inimical to him, and already The Homestead, the
farm paper, has begun q systematic fisilade
against him In articles covering his whole oficial
life The soldier element Is in favor OF a soldier
and presents Col Peter Hepburn a. the peer OF any
man in Congrses The Homestead, however, will
antsgonise him as y did last fall II is said that
Gov. Larrabee would not object 10 the place II it
was offered him, and there are those who say he Is
giving said and comfort to this idea whether
nopoly Or anti-coTporaton tide remains TO BE- seem
haf he does not feel assured Is shown by the fact
thath is coming home 70 spend the holidays
The Importance Of Physical Training.
From the Boston Herald
As a general thing we overwork, overfeed, and
underrecreate our bodies. II we all could live the
ideal physical life which most takes advantage OF
natures laws-were 1t only for a time-we should
md ourselves, society and the universe as 1t WERE
made over anew. We should feel that nothing
else pays so well. When the turf springs beneath
cur tread (and a block Of granite will seem TO
spring under the healthy FOOT our brain works
ninoiy ana our whole physical outfit is 10 that
gleriously normal and vigorous condition the re-
SUIT OF which Is that we are totally unconscious OF
possessing any bodies.
II any one lives this ideal physical life, adapted
70 Ding physique and consequently thought and
eeng TO their perfection it is the athlete oarsman
mas been reduced TO an art, and when we look at
It's results, human being In the topmost physical
SonGltlon, as regards symmetry, health, vigor,
hardness, endurance, OF which human nature Is
capable, and In the topmost mental. and, presuma-
Die, moral condition, or which the given Specimen
is capable, we might well cali 1t tine art. Paint
ing and sculpture produce merely simulated
man; training turns out flesh and blood one.
In proof OF what have said above OF the happi.
recently published in the Herald Of a CONVERSE.
ton with Teemer, the oarsman, who emphasized
the TACT that he never feels so WELL SO thoroughly
fairly longed to get back to it. The clear eye, the
Iron flesh, the skin white and satin as q babys
ana the nervous motions OF thoroughly trained
state which simply nothing can make miserable.
stocks may fail, elections miscarry, banks break,
friends deceive, or even wives elope. here stands
The panacea for every human woe-perfect health !!
we are SO apt to dose or TO run TO the doctor for
every little Ill or ache. How much better TO adopt
me preventive method OF getting and keeping our
which ailments, big or little, will hurl themselves
In vain; or II they snail have succeeded In effect
ing a temporary lodgment inside OF its s.guard, "
viii in short order, is the case with the hardy
prize fighters fOeman, find themselves first
caught In chancery" and then summar1ly
knocked out" We venture to express the opin-
ion that to a person free from any chrome affec-
ton, and to some tltat are not, exercise will be
found to be OF well nigh greater value than sleep
arati0n for any crisis no wiser thing can be done
than to get the body in perfect condition.
EAeIcise HUeraiiy ana JuulclouSy. and you Will
De surprised to find how, as II by magic not only
aches but troubles and perpleMties vanish; how
easy II has become to accomplish work; what an
Increase In power all round you find yourself in
possession OF. Ii this is 50, when, but Tor a few
minutes, you have made worry, work, or dissipa-
tion, Instead OF the first, secondary thing, re-
placing IL with "klndly natures honest rule
fancy The invincible and happy condition In which
you would be did you, or could you, make the
neaithy physical lie paramount for an unbroken
PERIOD OF weeks or months sinking the artificial
v.
could you manage 50 to sprinkle through this lat
ter hours and days OF bicycle riding, boating BALI
playing, tobogganing, Professionalism, anything,
In TACT, that is physical exercise ami takes you
into the open air. OF course exercise In the open
air is, otner things being equal preferable to ex-
ercise within doors. though there are vast differ
ences In what is commonly termed "the open arr
the unobstructed reach OF Nantasket beach, for
Instance, being a very different thing from a
Boston street, or even Boston Common. But oaly
In gymnasium can that thorough exercise Of the
body all round, ia its every muscle Joint and ber
which is most desirable, be obtained.
1t is pity that We have not more gymnasiums
constructed in the open air, as they have In Ger
many. The more unimpededly the outside atmos-
phere Is allowed TO circulate through them the
better